Bug 114139

Summary: vncserver service does not load appropriate profile
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 Reporter: Zach Gorman <zach>
Component: vncAssignee: Adam Tkac <atkac>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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Version: 3.0CC: ovasik
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Fixed In Version: RHBA-2007-0034 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Description Zach Gorman 2004-01-23 00:11:44 UTC
Description of problem:
When starting vncserver automatically on boot 
using /etc/sysconfig/vncservers and the vncserver service, the users' 
profiles are not loaded. As a result, each vncserver session is run 
using root's profile instead.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL3 fully up2date as of 22 Jan 04

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. edit /etc/sysconfig/vncservers to add a user:
VNCSERVERS="1:myusername"
2. run "service start vncserver"
3. log in to the vnc server, open a termainal and type env | grep 
PATH.   

Actual results:
Path is missing several entries, including /usr/local/bin

Expected results:
Complete, working path (the same path you would get if you did "su - 
username")


Additional info:
The problem is that the su command in /etc/init.d/vncserver doesn't 
specify the " - " option. Therefore, the user's profile is never 
loaded.

To fix, change:
"su ${USER} -c \"cd ~${USER} ...
to:
"su - ${USER} -c \"cd ~${USER} ...

This is similar to bug 100706 for RH9

Comment 5 Rainer Traut 2007-01-02 14:02:27 UTC
The same applies to EL4:

initlog $INITLOG_ARGS -c \
            "runuser ${USER} -c \"cd ~${USER} && [ -f .vnc/passwd ] && vncserver
:${DISP} ${VNCUSERARGS}\""

should be:

      initlog $INITLOG_ARGS -c \
            "runuser -l ${USER} -c \"cd ~${USER} && [ -f .vnc/passwd ] &&
vncserver :${DISP} ${VNCUSERARGS}\""

Comment 12 Red Hat Bugzilla 2007-02-08 20:07:35 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2007-0034.html